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When Tim Rowe started washing trucks part time at the United Parcel Service when he was 18 years old, he couldn’t have predicted that it would end in over 1 million miles, 38 years of safe driving, and 46 years of service.

Rowe still remembers the day he started at UPS: April 14, 1976.

“I was graduating from high school at the time, and I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Rowe said. “As far as career goes, I [knew] college was not for me.”

Rowe said UPS drivers had to be 21 years old, so he spent three years washing trucks until he was old enough. And sure enough, after he turned 21, he began driving a UPS delivery truck.

A group of neighbors on Edisto Island pulled out all the stops as they sent off their beloved delivery driver of 27 years.

Tony Savage has been working the UPS route for decades and built lasting relationships with the residents he served. On Friday, they all came together to make sure he knew how much he is appreciated.

The town declared Friday Tony Savage Day and neighbors lined the streets as he drove his route.

They surprised him with a variety of donated gifts, including a golf cart, a kayak, tickets for sunset tours, restaurant gift certificates, and more.

This happened on a big farm. I was still basically in the pasture when I kicked him out.

UPS is welcoming nearly 1,500 of its drivers worldwide into an elite group called the Circle of Honor, reserved for drivers who have not had a vehicle accident in 25 years.

At the end of March, UPS announced 1,495 of its drivers across four continents were inducted into the Circle of Honor.

One UPS driver who knows all too well about safe driving is Janis Bailey, the first female driver out of her center in Daytona Beach to join the elite group. She was inducted into the Circle of Honor a few years ago, but with that honor comes another – being a female trailblazer in the world of UPS.

When she joined UPS in 1989, Bailey wasn’t what customers were used to seeing in a male-dominated field. But she didn’t let that phase her.

United Parcel Service looks to be in luck this summer. The Steamship Authority board of governors voted unanimously Friday morning to approve a temporary license to barge UPS trucks from New Bedford to Nantucket, just one month after boat-line officials confirmed the shipper had missed the deadline for SSA truck reservations. this summer.

“If we don’t do something for this year, the island of Nantucket and its businesses will suffer,” SSA board member Peter Jeffrey said.

The barge service, run by 41 North Offshore LLC, will run weekdays from May 15-Oct. 19 this year. The approval from the SSA is for a one-year period.

The barge company made its proposal for 70 trips earlier this month after hearing UPS had lost out on hundreds of ferry spaces it normally books to transport its trucks to the island from Hyannis.